Independent Bookseller Since 1977 The Chatham Bookstore was established in 1977 and occupies a gracious brick storefront on Main Street in Chatham, New York. Nicole Furnée and Thomas Chulak acquired the store in January 2012. We are dedicated to building community through books. “We decided to say ‘yes’ to Main Street and be a part of the health and vitality of Chatham… the strength of local independent stores is a measurement of the quality of a community.”

When we were still in college together back in the 1970’s, Gina began to write, I began working in bookstores as a bookseller. Over the years, as we raised our kids, I became a publisher sales representative, then sales director, bookstore co-owner (with Gina), then VP of sales for a major publisher. Kids all grown, I left the corporate world, and became a literary agent. Gina has published over thirty books, I’ve lost count on the number of books I have sold and represented. Of all the works we have been associated, nothing makes us more proud than the collaboration with our daughter, Bree.